e-lit criticism

[Lori Emerson]

Hi all - thanks to everyone who's posted so far! Believe it or not I
didn't know that anyone had posted because I haven't been receiving
posts through email. Anyways, to pick up on a few comments that have
been made, can I persuade anyone to pursue further the issue of the
critical writing that's been done so far on digital poetry/e-
literature/new media art (or whatever we want to call it)?

Was anyone at MLA and/or did you go to any of the ELO sessions? I'm
curious to know about how the field is being shaped. We're at such a
curious moment where we can watch the field be institutionalized,
works turn canonical, before our very eyes. It's also interesting to
see how e-writing can be "exploited" by higher education for the sake
of pursuing grants or just to make literary studies appear more
relevant, perhaps even lucrative.

Any thoughts?

- Lori

[Alexander Jorgensen]

Hello all (and thanks for having me):

It's a difficult task trying to nail oneself down. Especially when one seems to meander to and fro, as they say, and spends lots of time engaged in, well, process.

Here's an attempt:

Just out is the new Otoliths with visual poems by Alexander Jorgensen. Two pieces from entitled China Series.

http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2007/12/alexander-jorgensen-from-china-series.html

Alexander Jorgensen was born and raised of the most mixed and common stock. An incessant traveler, he has lived in the United States, the Czech Republic, the Galapagos Archipelago, India's Himachal Pradesh (in the lap of Himalaya), and the People's Republic of China (where he has divided his time since 2002).

His work has most recently appeared in Big Bridge, Vibrant Gray, Shampoo, and Kabita Pakshik (translations into Bengali by poet and translator, Subhashis Gangopadhyay). "Letters to a Younger Poet," correspondences with the late Robert Creeley, appears in Jacket Magazine #31.


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